SCOTUS stuns forced-birth zealots

This doesn’t guarantee anything in the longer term. All they did was grant a stay. But the news could have been a lot worse.

This probably is another indication, though, that Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t intend for “his” court to go down as a thundering bastion of radical-right extremism, which wouldn’t look good in the history books. Not to mention which could produce huge electoral backlashes, amplifying those already created by the ultimate embodiment of “movement conservatism,” namely, putting a massively narcissistic and delusional, corrupt beyond description, treasonous, and most of all just an absolute god-damned fucking pitiful idiot in the White House.

In June 2016, an eight-member Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that required doctors who perform abortions to have the authority to admit patients at a local hospital. The makeup of the court has changed significantly since then: In 2017, Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died a few weeks before the Texas case was argued, and Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018 and was replaced by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But although the court by most measures has become more conservative, the justices (yesterday) granted a request from abortion providers to block a similar Louisiana law from going into effect while the providers appeal a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in a dispute that some court-watchers regarded as a bellwether for the court’s possible direction in future abortion cases. - SCOTUSblog